Word: conceal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group by 30%. But the benefits of mammography for younger women are less clear. One reason is that younger women have a lower incidence of breast cancer than older women, so there is simply less cancer to detect. In addition, young breast tissue is denser and more likely to conceal tumors from X rays than the more fatty tissue of older women...
Noriega's bluster could not conceal the bitter truth that most Panamanians want the general out, and they want him out now. Yet the country has not been gripped by the same volatile passions that ignited mass protests in Haiti, South Korea and the Philippines in recent years. Last summer's protests by hundreds of thousands of fist-shaking Panamanians have given way to muted anger. "We're not a violent people," said a middle-class woman in the capital. "We want to do it peacefully, like Gandhi...
...more than 200 rural airstrips have become key transit points for cocaine cargos. In recent years the Costa Rican business community has noticed that shipments of perishable products receive a less rigorous Customs inspection than nonperishable goods upon entering the U.S. Thus they are often used to conceal drugs...
...magnetic mine attached below the waterline of the Sol Phryne exploded, causing no injuries but leaving a 3 1/2-ft. by 1 1/2-ft. gash that disabled the vessel and prompted the P.L.O. to postpone el awda indefinitely. Israel officially denied complicity in the car bombing but hardly bothered to conceal its role in disabling the ferry...
...said he might have erred in not discussing his wartime past but said he never tried to conceal it. "I have a clear conscience," the former secretary-general of the United Nations told Austria's 7.5 million citizens...